Transport Properties of Refrigerants R32, R125, R134a, and R125 + R32 Mixtures in and Beyond the Critical Region

Kiselev, S.B.; Perkins, R.A.; and Huber, M.L.

Submitted to Int. J. Refrigeration.

A practical representation for the transport coefficients of pure refrigerants R32, R125, R134a, and R125 + R32 mixtures is presented. The crossover expressions for the transport coefficients incorporate scaling laws near the critical point and are transformed to regular background values far away from the critical point. The regular background parts of the transport coefficients of pure refrigerants are obtained from independently fitting pure fluid data. For the calculation of the background contributions of the transport coefficients in binary mixtures, corresponding-states correlations are used. A comparison is made with thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity data for pure refrigerants, and with thermal conductivity data for R125 + R32 mixtures. The average percentage deviations between the calculated values of the thermal conductivity and experimental data are less than 4-5% at densities rho >= 0.1 rho-c and temperatures up to T = 2Tc.